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The name James, is the way the Hebrew name Jacob came into English. The apostle James (a 1st century Jew) in the New Testament would actually have been known as "Jacob." The name Jacob (or "Yaakov," to be really exact) underwent more of a change as it came into English than it did going into other languages. For instance, in Latin it's Iacobus (there's no J in Latin, hence the initial I which was replaced with J in the modified English alphabet). For a modern illustration of how the name James = Jacob, note how when speaking of the era of British history during which king James I ruled (AD 1603-25) we call it the Jacobean era (i.e. the period during which king "Jacob"/James ruled).
So to make a long story short, Jacob is a Jewish name and James is its anglicized (English) form.
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